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Wanjira Mathai

Green Belt Movement of Kenya

Wanjira Mathai is the international liason for the world-renowned Green Belt Movement of Kenya. This movement was founded by Wagari Maathai, Wanjira's lengendary mother who is an attorney and women's and eco and human rights leader, member of a new, democratically-elected government of Kenya, and recent winner of the highly acclaimed, Nobel Peace Prize.

Wajira Mathai is part of a new generation of emerging young leaders and is a rising figure in Kenyan and international environmental, women's and social justice movements. In this interview she describes the history of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and how it functions as a catalyst for grassroots organizing of sustaniable projects in more in more countries in Africa as well as Kenya. She also speaks a bit of the new democratic Kenyan government and touches on that universal issue of sexism which exists in Kenya like everywhere else.